However, as these two books show, the lives they led were very different. Perhaps the contrast stems from the timing of their ...

Author Dava Sobel discusses how she discovered the many forgotten female scientists who were mentored by Marie Curie in early ...

On a cold December day in 1901, a crowd gathered at the Cathedral of St Paul in Boston to listen to a speaker described by The Boston Post as “one of the most distinguished women in all the ...

This is echoed in the music. The sense of reconciling woe and then building towards an upbeat crescendo is palpable in many of the songs that make up the top ten most played songs of the 20th century ...

METHUEN — From the front, the console and the awe-inspiring organ it controls are the same as they have been for more than a hundred years. However, from the back, it’s a different story ...

Pop star Katy Perry is set to make history as part of an all-female crew flying into space on Monday. The "Firework" singer will join five other women aboard a spacecraft from Blue Origin, the space ...

Jeff Bezos launched his all-female crew on Blue Origin today as everyone watched the six famous women launch into space for the 11-minute flight. With the likes of singer Katy Perry and his own ...

Famous Christian artists Chris Tomlin and Ben Fielding have revived a third century hymn discovered on ancient Egyptian papyrus, releasing a contemporary version of the song ahead of Easter. Titled ...

Conservation group Twentieth Century Society has announced its 2025 Risk List of UK buildings under threat of demolition or neglect, which includes "millennium-era buildings" for the first time.

Is fame different for women than it is for men? Famous women become symbols of social insecurity, embody expectations of what we might become, and model how women should—or should not—behave.

Antiques Roadshow expert Clive Stewart-Lockhart has unveiled a new book celebrating the forgotten legacy of Betty Joel, one of Britain's pioneering female furniture designers. Despite her significant ...